The fraud, deception and damage Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. of India perpetrated around the world a decade ago in the form of shoddy and dangerous drug manufacturing practices, is legendary. It’s time to look back. Katherine Eban, author of “Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generics Drug Boom” has provided us the means.
A capabilities audit is an integral part of a sponsor's due diligence in vendor procurement. It is often the sponsor’s first exposure to a CDMO’s operations, and the primary objectives are to evaluate the facility, equipment, quality systems, and the expertise of each functional team in relation to the specific needs of the project.
How can the industry improve the quality of its products? The first tactic could be to increase the frequency of vendor inspections, using internal quality control programs to inspect suppliers to assure compliance with the necessary supply agreements and adherence to appropriate manufacturing practices, including GMPs.
The number of new chemical entities gaining FDA approval more than doubled from 2017 to 2018. Global R&D spending increased 3.5%. The pipeline is strong, but how many innovations are actually reaching patients?
Methods for improving bioavailability are constantly evolving. Selecting the right approach is key to achieving a good formulation that reduces the frequency of dosing and improves patient compliance, as well as results in a low production cost.
There is an increased risk of viral contamination in settings where ATMPs are prepared, making it critical to understand the contamination risks and the solutions available to control them.
A discussion on the risks related to bioburden downstream processing and ways to mitigate them. Topics covered include improvements in raw material, equipment design, and chromatography resin properties.
Protein Sciences learned several valuable lessons during the development and final regulatory approval of its recombinant hemagglutinin (rHA) influenza vaccine, Flublok.
In the bioprocessing industry, in order to make full use of upstream advances in an efficient manner, it is essential that downstream processes are intensified.
This article outlines six recent regulatory changes in China intended to protect patient safety as well as reduce regulatory burdens and minimize delays.
Single-use technologies offer an attractive option for biopharmaceutical manufacturing, but their environmental impact needs be considered.
In cell culture-based vaccine production, scale-up of adherent cells is challenging. This study shows a process for scaling up adherent Vero cells from static cell factories to influenza production at 50 L scale using WAVE Bioreactor™ systems and ReadyToProcess single-use equipment.
Due to the short shelf life and clinical criticality of advanced therapies, their supply chains are often highly complex. Once efficacy and safety is demonstrated, the focus of advanced therapy developers moves to controlling cost. However, the biggest cost within the supply chain is caused by its complexity. In this article, we will share why the advanced therapy supply chain is so complex and how this complexity correlates to cost.
As novel medicines become a larger part of the industry's portfolio, it is critical you secure a supply chain and manufacturing processes that produce drugs in a reliable, cost-effective way.
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Biopharmaceutical product development today faces a very different set of challenges and drivers than in the past. In addition to the purely scientific challenges in developing new and innovative treatments for diseases of staggering complexity, the market today is demanding answers far beyond those that the traditional clinical-development and clinical-trial processes can deliver.
If the mission statement of nanotechnology is “to perform precise interventions at the cellular or molecular level to improve health and promote quality of life,” then the contract manufacturer might seek a mission statement such as, “to enable novel therapy in a safe, effective way, advancing medical science one medicine at a time.”
This article presents the requirements regarding documentation of QMS procedures and work instructions and then introduces methods that can be used to effectively document compliant procedures.
The failure to supply provision in a drug product or drug substance supply agreement can be the most hard fought-over “what if” in the agreement and has the potential to fracture a customer-supplier relationship.
The revised format for the EU Risk Management Plan (RMP) sets a new milestone in a progressive approach to risk management. The new RMP template can be used by RMP experts.
